He quickly sized up Wyse's prospects: While the company's long-neglected terminals business was highly profitable, the outlook for its PCs was grim in a market that was fast consolidating into a relatively few hands.
Talking with reporters at a tourism trade fair in Deauville, on the French Atlantic coast, Mr. Spinetta said that the objective of the talks was "the outlook for profitable growth".
Punch: What is happening in the specialty-travel Internet space with companies like iExplore, Away.com, etc. Are they profitable, and what is the outlook for growth?
Ford posted a quarterly profit on Monday, defying Wall Street forecasts for a loss as it cut costs and gained market share, leading it to raise its 2011 outlook to "solidly profitable" from break-even.
The bank also said it has been "solidly profitable" this quarter, and that the outlook for the three-month period is "roughly in line" with analyst forecasts.
Based on the outlook I dont see them getting profitable before they run out of money, Hunt says.
In 2011 Microsoft released Office 365, a cloud version of its highly profitable Office business software suite (comprising Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote) that included services and features similar to those of Google Docs.
It was popular, profitable, capable of generating international franchises and, above all, conservative in outlook.
Still, a good part of yesterday's afternoon rally came after investors digested Sun Microsystem's economic outlook, in which the company said it expected to be profitable in its fiscal fourth quarter.
The outlook isn't a lot better in the business of selling directories, profitable as they are now.
But it is an outlook instantly affronted by any suggestion that any future happening is going to be profitable, transformative or, worst of all, pleasant.
